Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!amdahl!uunet!kddlab!titcca!ccut!ascgw!fgw!flab!umerin From: umerin@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Masanobu UMEDA) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: vn verses vnews Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 88 06:16:42 GMT References: <632@convex.UUCP> <2743@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <2486@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Sender: news@flab.flab.fujitsu.JUNET Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu's message of 13 Oct 88 23:20:32 GMT In article <2486@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes: There are good points and bad points to both vn and rn. Usually I end up drifting between the two to take advantage of both features, but it would be great to see them combined into one program. GNUS, a NNTP-based netnews reader for GNU Emacs, is a nice integration of rn and vn. It takes advantage of both features and that of Emacs: (1) Browsing newsgroups in a Emacs buffer. (2) Browsing subjects (with other customizable headers) in a Emacs buffer. (3) Browsing articles in another buffer using two window mode of Emacs. (4) Customization using hooks. (5) Non-NNTP supports (local news spool and private directory) 2 and 3 are attractive for rn and vn users, I think. -- Masanobu UMEDA umerin@flab.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET umerin%flab.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET@uunet.uu.NET